Automatic flanging-machine.



J. 'c. TALIAFERRO.

AUTOMATIC FLANGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 7. I911. 1,178,357. Patented Apr. 4,1916.

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J. C. TALIAFERRO. AUTOMATlC FLANGING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILEDOCTJ. 1911.

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1. c. TALIAFERRO.

AUTOMATIC F LANGING MAQHINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCTJ, 1911.

- Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

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JOHN C, TALIAFERRO, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TOCONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

AUTOMATIC FLANGINGr-MACHINE.

Applicationiiiledflctober 7 b all whom a may concern Be it known that I, JOHN G. TALIAFERRO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in AutomaticFlanging-Machines, of which the following isa description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters and figures of referenoe marked thereon.

The invention relates to new and useful improvements in fianging machines for can bodies, and more especially to fianging. machineswhich are adapted to operate on large size can bodies, such as used in. making gallon cans, although from certain aspects of the invention, the same is equally applicable to the flanging of smaller can. bodies.

An object of the invention is to provide a machine which shall; comprise comparatively few moving parts, which machine includes a plurality of fianging stations, together with a carri'erfor conveying the can bodies from one station to another, so that said can body may receive a preliminary Hanging action at one station, and a subsequent finish flanging action at another station.

A further object of the invention is to provide a plurality of fianging stations cooperating with a common carrier, which flanging stations include movable heads, together with devices for simultaneously moving the heads, so that a plurality of can bodies in the carrier may be simultaneously acted upon.

A further object of the invention is to provide a flanging machine having a plurality of pairs of flanging heads. with common means for operating the same, together with an intermittently traveling carrier for de livering can bodies to the fianging heads, and for removing the can bodies from the fianging head after the fianging action is completed.

These and other objects will inpart be obvious and will in part be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings which show by way of illustration one embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a front view of the Hanging machine embodying my improvements, certain parts being shown in vertical section; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. l'is a vertical sectional view centrally through Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1916.

, 1911". SerialNo. 653,440.

the machine; Fig. 5' is av view showing in OIl two of theflanging heads and their relation to the can body before the flanging action occurs; Fig. 6 is a front view of one of the die heads, with the central portion removed; Fig. 7 is a side view of one of the levers for operating the flanging dies; Fig. 8 is a front view of the same; Fig. 9 is a rear view of the same; Fig. 10 is a diagrammatic view, showing the flanging dies, the can body and carrier before the fianging action occurs; Fig. 11 is a similar view, showingthe dies moved forward to perform the fl'anging operation, and Fig. 12 is a. similar view, showing the dies operated to release the flange of the can bodies.

In carrying out my invention, I have provided a supporting base 1, from which rise two standards 2, 2. These standards are connected at their upper ends by a cross bar 3. Mounted in suitable bearings in the standards 2, 2, is a shaft 4. On this shaft is mounted a carrier 5. This carrier consists of two members spaced so asto engage a can body adjacent each end thereof. Each of the spaced members is provided with a plurality of segmental pockets 6. As herein shown, I have provided the carrier with four segmental pockets.

The can bodies are delivered to the carrier from a runway 7, which is attached at its lower end to a bracket 8 mounted on the cross bar 3, at its upper end, and supported at its lower end by the shaft 4. The carrier is rotated intermittently, so as to place one of the segmental pockets at the lower end oi" the runway 7, and after a can body is fed into the'pocket, the carrier is rotated to convey the can body first to one flanging station and then another flanging station, and finally to the point of delivery. The can bodies as they are delivered from the carrier, drop into a receiver 10, which delivers the can bodies to a runway 11. These runways 7 and 11 may be the ordinary runways in a line of machines for performing various operations upon the can bodies, and said can bodies will be automatically delivered to the machine, the flanges formed thereon and automatically conveyed from the machine.

In order that the can bodies may be forced from the pockets, if for any reason they become locked therein, I have provided a strip per plate 12, which is attached to the bracket 8 and extends across the path of travel of the can body to a point underneath the shaft 4.

To assist in holding the can bodies in the carriers and prevent their dropping therefrom as the carrier moves from one flanging station to another, I have provided a flexible retaining member 13, which is adjustably secured to a cross bar 14, carried by the brackets 8. This flexible member 13 extends partially around the carrier, and is attached at 15 to a second cross bar which is mounted on the standards 2, 2. This flexible member may be so adjusted as to lightly engage the .can bodies, and as the carrier rotates, they will be properly held seated in the pockets in the carrier.

The carrier 5 is intermittently rotated from a countershaft 16, which is mounted in suitable bearings in the standards 2, 2, and at a point substantially in front of the shaft 4. This countershaft 16 has a gear 17, which meshes with a gear 18 on the main shaft 19. These gears 17 and 18 may be proportioned so as to derive the proper speed and power from the main shaft 19. At the opposite end of the countershaft 16 from the gear 17, is a disk 20. This disk on its outer face carries two rollers 21 and 22. Also mounted on the shaft 16 and adjacent the disk 20, is another disk 23, which is formed with segmental recesses 24. Mounted on the shaft with the carrier 5 is a radially slotted stop wheel 25. This stop wheel is formed with segmental cut away portions 26, adapted to receive the outer surface of the disk 23 on the shaft 16, while the radial slots in the stop wheel receive the rollers 21 and 22. This is the ordinary Geneva stop motion, and will not need further description. As the shaft 16 rotates, first the roller 20 and then the roller 21 will engage a radial slot, and give the carrier 5 a quarter turn, and after the carrier has been moved a quarter turn, the disk 23 will engage the segmental cut away portions in the stop wheel, and lock the carrier against further movement. By

this construction, the carrier is given one rotation to every two rotations of the shaft 16.

As herein shown, I have provided the machine with two flanging stations A and B. These flanging stations are arranged so that the dies at each station simultaneously operate upon the can bodies mounted in the carrier, and, therefore, each can body will in turn be subjected to the action of the dies at each flanging station. The flanging dies at each station are so shaped as to form first a preliminary curl, and then a final or finished flange in the can body.

The flanging dies, in the present embodiment of my invention, are mounted on two levers 27 and 28. These levers are each pivoted at 29 to the base of the machine, and extend vertically thereover. The levers are substantially parallel to each other. At the upper ends of the levers, I have provided a pair of flanging dies 30. These dies are similar in construction, and each consists of a plate 31, which may be of hardened steel. This plate 31 is secured to the end of the lever, and is formed with an annular recess 32 in its outer face.

Passing centrally through the plate 31 is a stud 33, which is loosely mounted in the lever so that it may move endwise therein. This stud carries at its outer end a die 34, which is formed with a cone-shaped surface 35 and a turning lip 36. Springs 37 are mounted in pockets formed in the lever and extend through apertures in the plate 31, and bear against the inner face of the die member 34. These springs normally press the die member outwardly, until a collar 38 I carried by the stud 33 engages the outer face of the lever.

lVhen a can body is pressed against the die, the die will be forced into the recess 32, compressing the springs 37 and the curl or flange on the body will be brought against the wall 39 of the plate 31, which serves as a limiting wall, and thereby determines the amount of curl or the length of the flange given to the can body. By this limiting wall, I am able to turn a flange at each end of the can body. If the metal offers less resistance at one end of the can body than the other, as soon as the finished flange is formed on this end, where there is the least resistance, the limiting wall will prevent any further turning of the flange, and a flange would then be formed at the other end of the can body. v

The object of making the die portions 34 movable relative to the die plate 31, is to aid in stripping the can body with the finished flange thereon, from the flanging die. The levers carrying the dies are moved against the can bodies simultaneously by mechanism which will be hereinafter described.

The cone-shaped die member 34 moves into the end of the can body; said member yields to allow the flange to form; and after the flange is formed and the levers are moved away from each other to release the can body, said yielding member will move outward, thereby ejecting the finished flange from the recessed die plate.

The carrier 5 which supports the can bodies and presents the same to the dies, is formed with spaced supporting members, as noted above, and these supportingmembers engage the can bodies adjacent the ends thereof, so that if the yielding part of the die fails to strip the can body from the die, the supporting member at the opposite side of the carrier will engage the turned flange thereon and pull the can body from the die. I have, therefore, embodied in my machine, the flanging die having a yielding center,

which ejectsrthecan body: from the, Hanging die, and can body supportingmembers,

ried, along with the carrier and; presented to a secon d" pair of fianging; dies, or ejected from;v the machine The, second pair of fiangin'g dies atirthe station B are also mountedi omthe: levers 27- and 28, and are, in all respects similar to'thedies above described, except that the curvature of the-,fiangeforming member is such as to form a finished flange on; the can: body, while the curvature of the dies in the first pair is such as. to: form, a preliminary curl at each end of the can body, Bythis two-step method, wherein a preliminary curl is formed, and. subsequently a finished flange is: formed, I amableto turn aflange at each end of the can body which will lie substantially at right angles tov the walls of the can; body, Without splitting the metal at the ends of the can body, or without straining or opening the side seamsof the can body.

Where a flange, is turned entirely about the can body in one operation, it is; often found that metal being perhaps: harder in some spots than others, isliable to split, which, of course, forms an imperfect can body, but by the above described: two-step method, all liability of splitting, as above noted, is avoided.

In order to'operate the levers which carry the flanging-dies, I have provided each lever adjacent its upper end, with brackets 40, between whichis mounted a roller 41.

On the outer face of the disk 20 are two cams 42' and 43. These cams are so located as to engage the roller 41 as the disk rotates. On the inner face of the gear Wheel 7 are two similar cams 44, which engage the roller 41, mounted between the brackets 40' on the lever 27. These cams are so positioned as to operate simultaneously upon the two levers 27 and 28, and for each rotation of the shaft 16, said levers will be forced toward each other twice. The levers are separated by a spring 45. A rod 46 telescopes within a sleeve 47, and the spring 45 is mounted on the rod and sleeve, and engages a. collar at the outer ends thereof.

The rod and sleeve are carried by screws 48, which extend through the levers, and are held in adjusted position by a set; nut 49. This spring 45 serves to separate the levers after the Hanging action. has been performed, and will keep the rollers 41 in contact with the cams carried by the disk 20, and gear wheel 17, or against the face of the disk 20 and the face of the gear wheel 17 at points between these cams.

In the operation of my device, the can bodies; to be flanged: are placed? in the1runcarried by into register with the runway and receive a can body. The firstv quarter turn of the carrier will bring the can: body to the flangingr station A. The shaft 16 which operates the'carrier 5 also operates the levers carrying; the fianging; dies, and; the actuating parts are so disposed that the carrier is given a quarter turn, when, the levers are separated, and 'then the carrier remains at rest. While the levers are moved toward each, other to flange the can body. The can body brought tothe seaming stat-ion A is operated upon by. the fianging dies,v and a preliminary curl formed in the end of the can body. As the levers separate,the movableparts of the dies will; eject the can body therefrom, Or the can body will be stripped from the dies by the supporting members of the carrier, which engage the can: body adjacent each end, and the carrier will then convey the can body tot-he seaming station B.

The flexible retaining member 13 will holdthecan bodies firmly in the pockets in the carrier, and, therefore, the carrier will properlyposition the can body at each seaming station. On the next forward movement of the levers, the can body having the preliminary curl thereon will receive a finished fiange,-and at the same time-that this can body is given its finished flange, the second can body is receiving a preliminary curl at the seaming station A. A further movement of the carrierb will convey the can body with the finished flange to the point of discharge, and the can body will drop into the receiver 10, and will then be carried by gravity to the runway 11.

By the above construction, it will be noted that I have provided a machine which has a plurality of stationary flanging stations, and an intermittent carrier presents the can body to be flanged first to one station and then another, so that each can body by a series of operations has a finished flange formed thereon at each end thereof.

lVhile I have designed my machine especially for use upon large can bodies, where considerable metal is turned during each hanging operation, itwill be obvious that said mechanism is. equally adapted for fianging smaller can bodies.

It is obvious that minor changes in the details of construction may be made, withsegmental out' departing from the spirit of my in with a plurality of stationary Hanging stations each including a movable head, a common lever upon which a movable head of each'station is mounted, means for moving said lever to cause the headsto flange the can bodies, and means for presenting a can body first to one station and thenanother.

2. In a Hanging machine, the combination of a plurality of pairs of Hanging heads, a lever on which a Hanging head in each pair is mounted, and means for moving said lever whereby the heads are caused to perform the Hanging action.

3. In a Hanging machine, the combination of a pair of levers, means for moving said levers toward each other, a plurality of pairs of Hanging heads, one head in each pair being mounted on one of said levers, and the other head in each pair being mounted on the other lever, whereby the movement of the levers toward each other will cause said pairs of heads to simultaneously act upon the can bodies.

4. In a Hanging machine, the combination of a pair of levers, means for moving said levers toward each other, a plurality of pairs of Hanging heads, one head in each pair being mounted on one of said levers,

and the other head in each pair being mounted on the other lever, whereby the movement of the levers toward each other, will cause said pairs of heads to simultaneously act upon the can bodies, an intermittently operated carrier for placing a can body first between one pair of heads and then another, whereby said can body may receive a plurality of Hanging actions.

5.'A Hanging machine including in combination, a supportingframe, a pair of vertically arranged levers pivoted on the base of said supporting frame, a plurality of Hanging heads carried by each lever, the Hanging heads on onelever being opposed to the Hanging heads on the other lever, the Hanging heads 011 the levers being arranged one above the other, means for moving said levers toward each other, and means for presenting can bodies to said Hanging heads.

6. A Hanging machine including in combination, a supporting frame, a pair of vertically arranged levers pivoted on the base of said supporting frame, a plurality of Hanging heads carried by each lever, the Hanging heads on one lever being opposed to the Hanging heads on the other lever, the Hanging heads on the levers being arranged one above the other, a shaft rotating about a horizontal axis, cams carried by said shaft for engaging the outer face of said levers for forcing the same toward each other, and means for presenting can bodies to the Hanging heads.

7 A Hanging machine including in combination, a supportingframe, a pair of versame first between one pair of heads and then another.

8. A Hanging machine including in combination, a supporting frame, a pair of vertically arranged levers pivoted on the base of said supporting frame, a plurality of Hang ing heads carried by each lever, the Hanging. heads on one lever being opposed to the Hanging heads on the other lever, the Hanging heads on the levers being arranged one above the other, a shaft rotating about a horizontal'axis, cams carried by said shaft for engaging the outer face of said levers for forcing the same toward each other, an intermittently rotating carrier for receiving can bodies and placing the same first between one pair of heads and then another, said rotating carrier being positively actuated directly from the shaft carrying the cams, whereby the can bodies are presented to thecan heads in proper timed relation to the actuation of the levers.

9. A Hanging machine including in combination, a supporting base, standards carried thereby, an intermittently rotating carrier mounted in the standards, a can body chute for feeding can bodies to the carrier, a pair of Hanging heads positioned for operation upon the can body while held by the carrier, levers on which said Hanging heads are mounted, and a rotary shaft mounted on said standards, cams carried by said shaft for engaging the levers and mov ing the same toward each other when the carrier is at rest, and means carried by the shaft for intermittently rotating the carrier.

10. A Hanging machine including in combination a supporting base, standards carried thereby, an intermittently rotating car- .rier mounted on said standards, said carrier including spaced brackets having segmental pockets, a can body chute for feeding can bodies to said pockets, a guard for holding the can bodies in said pockets, Hanging heads positioned for operation upon the can bodies while in the pockets, a rotary shaft mounted in the standards, disks carried by said shaft, cams mounted on the disks, levers pivoted to the supporting base on which said Hanging heads are mounted, said levers having means for engaging the cams on the disks, whereby the Hanging heads are moved to flange the can bodies, and means for intermittently moving the carrier from the shaft carrying said disks.

11. A flanging machine including in combination, a supporting base, standards carried thereby an intermittently rotating car-- rier mounts on said standards, said carrier including spaced members having segmental pockets, a can body chute for feeding can bodies to said pockets, a guard for holding the can bodies in said pockets, fianging heads positioned for operation upon the can bodies While in the pockets, a rotary shaft mounted in the standards, disks carried by said shaft, cams mounted on the disks, levers pivoted to the supporting base on Which said fianging heads are mounted, said levers having means for engaging the cams on the disks, whereby the flanging heads are moved to flange the can bodies, and means for intermittently moving the carrier from the shaft carrying said disks, and means for positively ejecting can bodies from the pockets in the carrier.

12. A. fianging machine including in combination, a supporting base, standards carried thereby, an operating shaft mounted in the standards, a carrier mounted on a horizontal rotating shaft, said carrier having spaced members formed with segmental pockets, a can body chute for feeding can bodies to the pockets, a guard for holding the can bodies in the pockets, a pair of vertical levers pivotally supported on the base, a plurality of fianging heads carried by, each lever, and disposed so as to simultaneously operate upon can bodies carried in adjacent pockets in the carrier, While the carrier is at rest, a horizontally rotating shaft, disks mounted on the horizontal rotating shaft and operated from the main shaft, cams carried by said disks and engaging said levers for moving the same toward each other, means carried by said shaft carrying the disks for intermittently rotating the carrier, and means for ejecting the can bodies from the carrier after the flanging operation.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in the presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN C. TALIAFERRO.

Witnesses:

MARY H. FARR, CHAs. E. RioRnoN.

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